# The Winery

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc wizard of wines winery 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-wizard-of-wines-winery-1.webp)
> **Region:** [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-wizard-of-wines.md) · level 6
> **Resting:** Safe
> **Light:** dim
> **Getting here:** [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-wizard-of-wines.md), [The Winery Cellars](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery-cellars.md)

## Overview

The Martikovs' winery: a tasting room with a long bar, Davian's office, the fermenting hall with its great vats, a bottling room, and the stair down to the cellars. The druids have made it their barracks.

The winery smells of old wine gone to vinegar and of something else under it, green and wet, like a pond in summer. The floorboards have been pried up in rows, as if someone were looking for something.

**Resting:** Safe: a Long Rest here isn't interrupted.

![loc wizard of wines winery overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-wizard-of-wines-winery-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-wizard-of-wines.md):** The winery
- **From [The Winery Cellars](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery-cellars.md):** Stairs up to the winery

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the yard | [The Wizard of Wines](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-wizard-of-wines.md) |  |
| 2 | Stairs down to the cellar | [The Winery Cellars](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery-cellars.md) |  |

## Map

![wizard of wines winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/wizard-of-wines-winery.svg)

**Key:** gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.

### Close up

![loc wizard of wines winery spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-wizard-of-wines-winery-spot1.webp)
*Davian's strongbox*

![loc wizard of wines winery spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-wizard-of-wines-winery-spot2.webp)
*the druids' bedrolls*

![loc wizard of wines winery spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-wizard-of-wines-winery-spot3.webp)
*a shelf of bottling supplies*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[Adrian Martikov](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/adrian-martikov.md)**, The fermenting hall (#3): when winery reclaimed and not adrian martikov with the party

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | Davian's strongbox | 60 gp | lock DC 15 |
| 5 | the druids' bedrolls | [Bedroll](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#bedroll) ×2, [Herbalism Kit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#herbalism-kit), [Druidic Focus (Sprig of Mistletoe)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#druidic-focus-sprig-of-mistletoe), 12 gp | open it |
| 6 | a shelf of bottling supplies | [Glass Bottle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#glass-bottle) ×3, [Oil](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#oil) ×2, [Candle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#candle) ×4 | open it |
| 7 | a board the druids didn't lift (hidden) | [Elemental Gem (Emerald)](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#elemental-gem-emerald) | Search: Perception DC 15 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 6 the first time you come ([Random Treasure](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.

## Fights

- *Three druids stand among heaps of dead brush that were blights until the tree on the hill burned. They have…*, in [The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md): [Druid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/druid.md), [Vine Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vine-blight.md), [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md), [Twig Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/twig-blight.md), [Shambling Mound](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/shambling-mound.md). Scales with your level.
> [!example]- By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
> - **[The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md)**, when not winery hall cleared and gulthias tree burned: 3 × Druid of Yester Hill ([Druid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/druid.md)) (1350 XP)
> - **[The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md)**, when not winery hall cleared and level ≥ 7: 3 × Druid of Yester Hill ([Druid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/druid.md)), 4 × [Vine Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vine-blight.md), 6 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md), 4 × [Twig Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/twig-blight.md), [Shambling Mound](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/shambling-mound.md) (3950 XP)
> - **[The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md)**, when not winery hall cleared and level ≥ 6: 2 × Druid of Yester Hill ([Druid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/druid.md)), 3 × [Vine Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vine-blight.md), 6 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md), 4 × [Twig Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/twig-blight.md), [Shambling Mound](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/shambling-mound.md) (3400 XP)
> - **[The Winery](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-winery.md)**, when not winery hall cleared: 2 × Druid of Yester Hill ([Druid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/druid.md)), 2 × [Vine Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/vine-blight.md), 4 × [Needle Blight](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/needle-blight.md) (1300 XP)

## Quests and lore

> [!quote]- The winery ledger
> The Martikov ledger, in three hands over three generations. Casks out: to Vallaki, to the village under the castle, to Krezk, to the abbey on the hill. The last column, in Davian's heavy hand, stops three months ago in the middle of a line. Further back, a page with one entry and nothing else on it: Elvir. Spring. No cask this year.